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LA VERONAL – LA MORT I LA PRIMAVERA

  • August 1st – 2nd, 2025 BIENNALE DANZA, Venice
  • September 24th – October 9th, 2025 TNC, Barcelona
  • November 1st – 2nd, 2025 Temporada Alta, Girona

Duration: unknown

A Fantasy

Marcos Morau and La Veronal, a dance company of great international scope and prestige, explore Mercè Rodoreda’s dark imaginary to construct an allegory about creative freedom, social commitment, and art as salvation and refuge.

La mort i la primavera is Rodoreda’s unfinished novel both dark and beautiful, enigmatic and universal, rebellious and fatalistic, with a universe between the human and the sacred, the spiritual and the animal. A piece that expresses sadness and anger, but also resistance. Rodoreda wrote the work in the early 1960s when she was in exile, and it is thought to be a condemnation of totalitarianism and Rodoreda’s experience with nazism during WWII.

La mort i la primavera will open the season at the TNC after its premiere at the Biennale Danza in Venice.

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Ballet Nacional de España / Marcos Morau – Afanador

Till July 23th, 2025 FILM ONLINE
100 minutes

The Power of Photography & Choreography

© MERCHE BURGOS

Afanador emerges from the tension between the fascination that emanates from Ruven Afanador’s photos, and my own fascination with all the mystery, so diurnal and yet so nocturnal, that once fascinated Ruven.

Marcos Morau

Ruven Afanador’s photography is not documentary or monumental—it doesn’t archive history or glorify its subjects. Instead, it is driven by desire, distorting and being distorted by its object. Desire, elusive by nature, shapes what it sees, revealing subjective and profound truths.

Afanador approaches Andalusian folklore through this lens, exposing flamenco’s raw subconscious—its passion, death, and untold stories. His work amplifies its essence into a surreal, evocative world of shadow and light, where he both observes and is observed.

Our work extends this vision, capturing Afanador’s gaze and the transformative power of photography. Like Goya’s Caprichos, these images blend familiar themes through association and metamorphosis, turning photography into both miracle and mystery. Each shot lingers just beyond reach, on the verge of vanishing into its own fire.

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Ballet Nacional de España / Marcos Morau – Afanador

April 24th – 25th, 2025 Yeulmaru, Yeosu
April 30th – May 1st, 2025 GS Arts Center, Seoul
July 10th – 20th, 2025 Teatro de la Zarzuela, Madrid
September 26th – 27th, 2025 Festspielhaus St. Pölten, St. Pölten
November 5th, 2025 Concertgebouw Brugge, Bruges
November 22nd – 23rd, 2025 Festival de Danse Cannes, Cannes
March 27th – April 2nd, 2026 Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris
100 minutes

The Power of Photography & Choreography

© MERCHE BURGOS

Afanador emerges from the tension between the fascination that emanates from Ruven Afanador’s photos, and my own fascination with all the mystery, so diurnal and yet so nocturnal, that once fascinated Ruven.

Marcos Morau

Ruven Afanador’s photography is not documentary or monumental—it doesn’t archive history or glorify its subjects. Instead, it is driven by desire, distorting and being distorted by its object. Desire, elusive by nature, shapes what it sees, revealing subjective and profound truths.

Afanador approaches Andalusian folklore through this lens, exposing flamenco’s raw subconscious—its passion, death, and untold stories. His work amplifies its essence into a surreal, evocative world of shadow and light, where he both observes and is observed.

Our work extends this vision, capturing Afanador’s gaze and the transformative power of photography. Like Goya’s Caprichos, these images blend familiar themes through association and metamorphosis, turning photography into both miracle and mystery. Each shot lingers just beyond reach, on the verge of vanishing into its own fire.

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